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Publisher Unknown (1969)
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While Mia tries to get over breaking up with her boyfriend, she discovers a diary kept by a former princess of Genovia from the 1600s, the contents of which could change the fate of her country forever.
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LibraryThing member francescadefreitas
Reading this series more or less in a row made it feel like Mia was never getting anywhere. While she'd do something courageous at the end of each book, by the start of the next book, she was back to the same place with her identical insecurities. But this book was different. Mia's relationship
This is also a sympathetic, if light, portrayal of teenage depression, and it's good to see this chirpy heroine face real difficulty, and eventually face her feelings through hard work and courage - it make it seem possible that she will face the future the same way.
And of course I am dying to know what happens in the next book when Michael comes back from Japan!
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with Michael was been a constant theme through all of these books - and in this one they have no only broken up, he has left the country, his only presence is the occasional email. Instead, we see Mia wallowing in misery and apathy. Her friends either rally to her side, or think the worst and desert her. And the problem she face at the end of this book is not about attending prom, installing parking meters, or justifying snails - what she does will change her country and the role of her family forever.This is also a sympathetic, if light, portrayal of teenage depression, and it's good to see this chirpy heroine face real difficulty, and eventually face her feelings through hard work and courage - it make it seem possible that she will face the future the same way.
And of course I am dying to know what happens in the next book when Michael comes back from Japan!
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LibraryThing member collsers
This installment of the Princess Diaries series has taken a lot of flack from some fans, who felt betrayed by Mia and Michael's breakup in the last book and what follows with her romantic and platonic relationships here. However, I found it far more enjoyable than the last few books in the series
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had been. Cabot tackles the very real issue of depression, and handles it in a way that is approachable by her YA readers without belittling its significance. To be honest, I had started to tire of Mia and Michael's relationship--it was a little too "yay! I can haz boyfriend!" on her side, and the clear lack of communication between them (especially concerning sex) really bothered me. It's nice to see her move beyond this relationship. After all, few teenagers end up spending the rest of their lives with their childhood crush; I know I'm glad I didn't. The ending actually surprised me, and showed growth of character on Mia's part. It actually made me eager to see what will happen in the next installment. Show Less
LibraryThing member monkeyfamily
Mia a teen ihas become a princess and got a boy friend and is going through high school problems and it is a very goog searies.
LibraryThing member jentifer
I am part of a Princess Diaries cabal. I didn't mean to join it, but unknowningly I was admitted, and now I can't get out. Without my asking, the newest PD book shows up on my workdesk, and I know I have a mere 14 hours to read it before I am cornered by my two coworkers (who shall remain nameless)
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and asked how I liked it.It's a bonding thing, to be able to talk about these books. This one was actually kind of suprising, and though Mia is always 10 steps behind the reader, I think it's fun for tweens to "know what's up" before the character does. Show Less
LibraryThing member 8F_lahvyou
Princess Mia is like a totally awesome book. There's just a tiny problem, I didn't read any of the books from volume 3 until now.
I guess that's my fault, so i suggest you read ALL the books in between.
OH MY GOSH! It's SOOO sad, Micheal and Mia broke up. Yup, right in the beggining of the book they
I guess that's my fault, so i suggest you read ALL the books in between.
OH MY GOSH! It's SOOO sad, Micheal and Mia broke up. Yup, right in the beggining of the book they
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drop the bombshell (i guess it was monumental to me because i didn't realise they were having relationship problems) they wanted to JUST BE FRIENDS. As if, HAHA. I personally think micheal and mia are destined to be with each toher. Guess Meg Cabot and I think differently, well I have to read the next book. Mia goes deep into depression and starts talking to a therapist for help, and i think it's helping. While J.P (mia's best friend's ex.) is her supposed "boyfriend" or that's what the media portrays him as, when he's not. So she's got her fair share of problems. STAY STRONG MIA! Show Less
LibraryThing member carolina221
Princess Mia is about Mia has just broke up with her long time boyfriend Michael for kissing her best friend's ,Lily, boyfriend. Then Michael moves to Japan and JP ,lily's ex, is trying to get closer to Mia. Mia and lily aren't speaking to each other and Mia is trying to contact Michael. P is being
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very nice to Mia and Tara gets suspicious. She later finds out JP has feelings for Mia and Mia doesnt believe her till JP tells her himself. Mia finds out that Lily is over JP and is now going out with someone else . Mia is reading an old diary that her grandmother gave her and finds some interesting facts. Mia is forced Show Less
LibraryThing member mjmbecky
Mia and Michael have broken up, as Mia believes. Michael has headed off to Japan, having his last sight of Mia being in a kiss with fellow hottie, J.P. Abernathy. Mia literally can not function. Her best friend Lilly is ignoring her, and she has no hope of reaching Michael until he reaches Japan
I really loved this book for its complexity of emotion. We know that Mia feels things to the extreme, and is a bit excitable, but it isn't until this book that we really get a sense of how she deals with heart break. Also, in this case, I loved how it tied to her decision not to have sex with Michael, "just because." Mia knows she couldn't handle it emotionally, and so deals with the results of seeing Michael move to Japan and their relationship coming to a necessary end so that they both can have some space. I really liked seeing a teen address this subject truthfully, not merely from the perspective of "I should" or "shouldn't" by social standards. There wasn't a judgment attached, but it was addressed from where Mia was, which I think might be helpful for many girls. Rather than being told that you shouldn't, we watch how Mia struggles with it.
Okay, so while I've waxed long on the teen message here, I wanted to say that this book develops Mia's character so well that I couldn't help really loving her and caring about her. The final three books in this series are fantastic, and although I've always loved Meg Cabot's style, I have to say that these final books in the series are very well done and help wrap up the series.
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(which takes a good portion of the book). Mia does not get dressed, shower, or go to school, to which her parents send her off to counseling to pull herself together.I really loved this book for its complexity of emotion. We know that Mia feels things to the extreme, and is a bit excitable, but it isn't until this book that we really get a sense of how she deals with heart break. Also, in this case, I loved how it tied to her decision not to have sex with Michael, "just because." Mia knows she couldn't handle it emotionally, and so deals with the results of seeing Michael move to Japan and their relationship coming to a necessary end so that they both can have some space. I really liked seeing a teen address this subject truthfully, not merely from the perspective of "I should" or "shouldn't" by social standards. There wasn't a judgment attached, but it was addressed from where Mia was, which I think might be helpful for many girls. Rather than being told that you shouldn't, we watch how Mia struggles with it.
Okay, so while I've waxed long on the teen message here, I wanted to say that this book develops Mia's character so well that I couldn't help really loving her and caring about her. The final three books in this series are fantastic, and although I've always loved Meg Cabot's style, I have to say that these final books in the series are very well done and help wrap up the series.
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LibraryThing member benuathanasia
Omg! Omg! O...M...G! Just when I thought I would seriously have to murder Mia for being the most obnoxious, self-absorbed, puerile little puke...
So, she's being a complete dumbass about Michael, as usual. And Lilly is being the quintessential horrible friend (minus the friend part), also as usual
So, she's being a complete dumbass about Michael, as usual. And Lilly is being the quintessential horrible friend (minus the friend part), also as usual
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(seriously, why has Mia ever liked her? She treats her like sh*t), and Mia is being a whiny ass f*cking brat, once again, as usual. Thankfully, Lilly calls her out on it in a rather public way that helps launch what may very well have been Mia's long-awaited journey to self-actualization. The ending was the most incredible thing, ever (as far as this series goes, anyway). Show Less
LibraryThing member matamgirl
Well it was an improvement on the two or three ones that came before it.
LibraryThing member princess-starr
So, this is kind of a late turning point in the series. First and foremost, we’ve got Mia having to face facts and realize that she needs to grow up and get over herself. I also like the fact that her parents actually act like parents and tell her to grow up and move on instead of wallowing in
However, this does feel like the second part of book eight—I was mulling over this, and I think that the series would have been a lot more effective if a few of the volumes had just been lumped together. (It also doesn’t help that this book picks up right after the end of Princess on the Brink. It would have been a little more effective and believable if the action picked up a few weeks later.) I also really don’t agree that Mia was going through depression, just normal teenage hormones. Depression is a lot worse and more complicated than “My boyfriend left meeeee and my best friend isn’t speaking with me!” My biggest complaint, for the series as a whole, is the fact that Mia needs to step back and grow the hell up; it’s fine in the first few books, but by now, it’s becoming a huge, tired schtick.
But speaking of growing up, the thing that I liked the most in this is Lana. The fact that she took the time to say, “Look, we’re getting a little old for this back and forth. Truce?” impressed me to no end. It could have been very easy for her to remain the bitchy popular girl antagonist for the finale, but the fact that she does bury the hatchet with Mia, and turns out to be fairly nice took her character in a much different turn.
As for the main plot—the discovery of Princess Amelie’s edict making Genovia a constitutional monarchy—again, I felt that this would have been more effective if it had taken place much later in the year than immediately following the previous book. I would have also liked to have known more about why she wasn’t considered important in the Genovian royal family, aside from “Well, she was a sixteen-year-old girl!” While a lot of the book suffers from the problems that plague the latter half of the series, the new turning points do make the read a bit more worthwhile.
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bed complaining about Michael.However, this does feel like the second part of book eight—I was mulling over this, and I think that the series would have been a lot more effective if a few of the volumes had just been lumped together. (It also doesn’t help that this book picks up right after the end of Princess on the Brink. It would have been a little more effective and believable if the action picked up a few weeks later.) I also really don’t agree that Mia was going through depression, just normal teenage hormones. Depression is a lot worse and more complicated than “My boyfriend left meeeee and my best friend isn’t speaking with me!” My biggest complaint, for the series as a whole, is the fact that Mia needs to step back and grow the hell up; it’s fine in the first few books, but by now, it’s becoming a huge, tired schtick.
But speaking of growing up, the thing that I liked the most in this is Lana. The fact that she took the time to say, “Look, we’re getting a little old for this back and forth. Truce?” impressed me to no end. It could have been very easy for her to remain the bitchy popular girl antagonist for the finale, but the fact that she does bury the hatchet with Mia, and turns out to be fairly nice took her character in a much different turn.
As for the main plot—the discovery of Princess Amelie’s edict making Genovia a constitutional monarchy—again, I felt that this would have been more effective if it had taken place much later in the year than immediately following the previous book. I would have also liked to have known more about why she wasn’t considered important in the Genovian royal family, aside from “Well, she was a sixteen-year-old girl!” While a lot of the book suffers from the problems that plague the latter half of the series, the new turning points do make the read a bit more worthwhile.
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LibraryThing member librarybrandy
There are some books I read where I wrestle with my conscience: to list it on GoodReads, or not? And so far I've always come down on the side of listing them all, even though they may not all be books I want to cop to reading. I'm listing this one and not putting it in my update feed. Maybe it'll
Somehow I've managed to avoid the Clique/Gossip Girl/A-List types, but this series has sucked me in and won't let go. Part of it is that I do have parents at the library who ask if a series is appropriate for their kids of varying ages, and this is one of the books they ask about--because their 9- or 10-year-old daughters watched the first movie and want to read the books, but when does it take that turn for the Older Teen? (Answer: a couple of books ago.)
Mia is battling a major depression after breaking up with her boyfriend, and the resulting disinterest in everything makes her whine a lot less about every other aspect of her life. But even without her incessant whining, this drags. We only get through about two weeks of minutiae: who's dating whom, X mad at Y, and lengthy IM sessions with what might be the most annoying Protagonist's Sidekick on the face of the planet.
If you've been reading this series all along and have been enjoying it, there's nothing I can say to dissuade you from picking this one up, too. But if you're trying to quit, go for it. At the end of the book, very little has changed in Mia's life. Any major changes hinted at will have to be explored in the next volume, because this one ends just short of where the plot could (but probably won't) get interesting.
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sneak under my Smart Friends' radars, because I read this and I feel a deep shame for that fact.Somehow I've managed to avoid the Clique/Gossip Girl/A-List types, but this series has sucked me in and won't let go. Part of it is that I do have parents at the library who ask if a series is appropriate for their kids of varying ages, and this is one of the books they ask about--because their 9- or 10-year-old daughters watched the first movie and want to read the books, but when does it take that turn for the Older Teen? (Answer: a couple of books ago.)
Mia is battling a major depression after breaking up with her boyfriend, and the resulting disinterest in everything makes her whine a lot less about every other aspect of her life. But even without her incessant whining, this drags. We only get through about two weeks of minutiae: who's dating whom, X mad at Y, and lengthy IM sessions with what might be the most annoying Protagonist's Sidekick on the face of the planet.
If you've been reading this series all along and have been enjoying it, there's nothing I can say to dissuade you from picking this one up, too. But if you're trying to quit, go for it. At the end of the book, very little has changed in Mia's life. Any major changes hinted at will have to be explored in the next volume, because this one ends just short of where the plot could (but probably won't) get interesting.
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LibraryThing member sszkutak
Go Mia! Finally some growth and responsibility! I loved this installment of the series so much, there was so much realization on Mia's part with the help of some therapy and more craziness happening. Mia is starting to grasp the fact that in the past she has been a bit of a push-over and she wants
Mia is still whiny and pretty oblivious most of the time but she does crack me up while I am reading - the number of times she really freaks out over something minor is wonderful to read about especially in diary form.
Only a few more of these to go before I am caught up!
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to take a stand, luckily for her the reason to do so has fallen into her lap. All the while she is also dealing with boyfriend and friend issues and learning more and more about herself along the way. Mia is still whiny and pretty oblivious most of the time but she does crack me up while I am reading - the number of times she really freaks out over something minor is wonderful to read about especially in diary form.
Only a few more of these to go before I am caught up!
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LibraryThing member sszkutak
Go Mia! Finally some growth and responsibility! I loved this installment of the series so much, there was so much realization on Mia's part with the help of some therapy and more craziness happening. Mia is starting to grasp the fact that in the past she has been a bit of a push-over and she wants
Mia is still whiny and pretty oblivious most of the time but she does crack me up while I am reading - the number of times she really freaks out over something minor is wonderful to read about especially in diary form.
Only a few more of these to go before I am caught up!
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to take a stand, luckily for her the reason to do so has fallen into her lap. All the while she is also dealing with boyfriend and friend issues and learning more and more about herself along the way. Mia is still whiny and pretty oblivious most of the time but she does crack me up while I am reading - the number of times she really freaks out over something minor is wonderful to read about especially in diary form.
Only a few more of these to go before I am caught up!
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LibraryThing member MynTop
This book broke my heart. I remember too well how it feels at that age to lose the one who could have been THE one. I felt for Mia as she couldn't even get Lilly to let her explain and felt the loss of her love and her best friend. I love Tina and how she's unfailingly there for and in support of
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Mia. I think this book was much better than the previous and am very anxious to start book 10. Show Less
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Original publication date
2007-12-26
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Mia deals with depression, described really well
Other editions
Princess Mia (The Princess Diaries, Vol. 9) by Meg Cabot (Hardcover)